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A North Carolina congresswoman believes that the Republican Party would make more headway with women voters if it could bring policy discussions “down to a woman’s level.” According to Slate’s Dave Weigel, Rep. Renee...

A Princeton professor who CBNC billed as an “industry expert” on the climate said this week that scientists were demonizing carbon dioxide “like the poor Jews under Hitler” in order to perpetrate a global warming hoax....

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, who outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in 2011, was detained by U.S. border patrol agents while reporting on the refugee crisis in Texas on Tuesday. Editor’s Note: This story...

A Massachusetts Christian college that is asking the government to allow it to discriminate against LGBT people is now facing review by a regional accreditation board. The Boston Business Journal reported over the weekend that Gordon...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday plans to highlight his administration’s work alongside researchers and the private sector to develop vehicles that “talk” to each other using wireless technology....

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday ruled that Texas could not prohibit a group that celebrates the Confederacy from having their own specialty license plates. The federal appeals panel ruled 2-1 that the Texas Department of Motor...

A group of anti-immigration protesters have gathered in Oracle, Arizona to stop 40 child refugees who have been invited to stay at a ranch for boys. In what mirrors demonstrations in Murrieta, California that forced busses of women and children...

A self-described sovereign citizen charged in an armed bank robbery near Philadelphia wants to represent himself and tried separately from his two alleged conspirators. Ishaq Ibrahim, 28, is charged along with 26-year-old James Byrd and...

An official proclamation signed by Gov. Terry Branstad (R-IA) has called on Iowans to pray and repent on a daily basis. In a public ceremony earlier this year, Branstad signed the proclamation ahead of a July 14 revival at the Iowa Capitol: NOW,...

Nestle continues to draw water to sell from wells located on a California reservation despite worsening drought conditions that have prompted conservation measures limiting personal use. The company has been drawing water for more than a decade...

Over the weekend, vandals defaced a Westminster, Maryland building that was considered as a possible shelter for undocumented immigrant children. The Baltimore Sun reported that someone spray-painted the words “NO ILLEAGLES [sic] HERE NO...

A Montana man could spend the rest of his life in prison if he is found guilty of growing marijuana plants. According to an affidavit obtained by the Independent Record, the Missouri River Drug Task Force obtained a search warrant for...

By Jennifer Dobner SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – Police in Utah are investigating after a man killed himself by jumping into a 30-foot (9-meter) bonfire during an arts and culture festival on the weekend in the desert west of Salt Lake City,...

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday he wants U.S.-Chinese relations defined by more cooperation and a constructive management of differences during a phone call in...